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MATCHLESS
Definition of MATCHLESS
adjective
Having no match; without equal.
Wiktionary · CC BY-SA
Where it comes from
From match + -less, modelled after or partly continuing Middle English makeless (“having no peer or equal, matchless”), equivalent to make + -less. Compare Swedish makalös (“incomparable, matchless”), Danish mageløs (“matchless”).
Etymology via Wiktionary (CC BY-SA).
OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
MATCHLESS in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 1 board so far.
It first turned up on Day 124, 21 September 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First ever to find it
on Day 124, 21 September 2026 - before anyone else in Outlier's history. See the Pioneers
Built from these letters
MATCHLESS starts with M and ends with S. Sorted, its letters read ACEHLMSST - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. S appears more than once, including a double letter.
Words that start MATCHL
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Could you have found MATCHLESS?
OUTLIER is a daily word game. One grid, the same grid for everybody, and the words nobody else spots are the ones that pay. This word was on Day 124 - and most players walked straight past it.
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